FROM BODY TO WORD

the analetics of Claricean conversations

Abstract

This essay offers a reading of Clarice Lispector’s chronicles through the lens of Enrique Dussel’s analectics and decolonial thinkers such as Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. Rather than viewing Clarice as introspective or individualist, the author shows how her hesitant, fragmented writing calls for an ethical and epistemic listening to the other. Clarice writes from silence and the ineffable, resisting Western language as a tool of domination and classification. The essay connects Bautista’s critique of perceptual colonialism, Oyěwùmí’s denunciation of the Western invention of the body, and the view of tradition not as static heritage, but as a living epistemology. This theoretical conversation does not seek closure, but openness. To think, in this context, is to risk being born again.

Clarice Lispector;analectics; decoloniality, body; epistemology.